Machine for treating flax and other fiber-yielding plants.



MACHINE FOR TREATING FLAX AND OTHER FIBER. YIELDING PLANTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1903.

Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

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EUGENE BUSSE, 0F SALEM, OREGON.

MACHINE FOR TREATING FLAX AND OTHER FIBER-YIELDING PLANTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Ap ilication filed June 15, 1903. Serial No. 161,655.

To all whom it may concern lie it known that I, EUGENE Bossn, a citizen of the United States, residingat Salem, (county of Marion, and State of Oregon, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for "lreating Flax and other l ihenYiellling Plants, of which the li'ollowii'ig is a speeifieation.

lily invention relates to machines for refining 0r haelt'ling tlax or other tiher yielding plants.

The object of the present invention is the provision of a machine of the class set forth having an improved and novel arrangement of rollers, moving gills, and gearing for op erating said rollers and gills, whereby the slivers of flax or other fiber yielding plant undergoing treatn'ient. Will'he acted upon in such manner that a superior produrt is ohtained.

The invention comprises a" plurality of pairs of rollers, with intermediate *oills" which may be of either the rotary or endless l l l l l l I l i l l l l l i l l l chain type, in connection with gearing ol novel arrangement and eonstrur-liou, whit-h imparts to the rollers an intermittent l'or- Ward rotation alternating with a harkivard rotation of less event or amplitrule, and to the ,gills a (OltlblllllD-HSlQ/ forward movement. The invention is set forth in detail hereinafter and the novel features are mhodil-d iu the claims.

in the accompanying drav-sines' l. is a side elevation oi in}; improved relinlug, or harkling metrhauism; lfiig. L,- a plan view thereof; Fig. :3, a face view oi" he mutilated gears when plat-ed .si j ."lll'r" and Fig. i, a detail of said gears and the lower roller driven thereby.

On the frame 1 of the machine are mountied a plurality oi pairs, tour in the present inslanre. ol' rotary rollers 42, they lower roller of each pair having fine ('(nrngations ii) and the upper rollers being smooth and held down on the lower rollers by heavy springs H to prevent. slipping oi the liher when drawn back on the gills lai vvhnih are interposed between the sets of rollers. The gills 45 may be either rotary or of the endless ehain type, the latter being.-the hind shown in the present instance. The seeond set oi. gills is liner than the first. set and the third set is liner than the second set. The

J l 1 distance from the centers of one pair oi" and for haelcling said l l l l i l i l l l l l l l l l l l rollers 42 to a succeeding pair 42 should not.

he more than eight lnohes in order to prevent breaking: of the filament of flax.

Journaled in suitable hearings on the side of the frame 1 is the drive shaft 4, which may be driven from any source. (in shaft t, adjacent aeh set of rollers 4:2, are. secured mutilated bevel gears S t" and 34, each having three gear segments, but each gear segment of gear 3-l has double the number 01 teeth or eogs of any gear segment of gear ill, and the. gear segments of gears 3t and 34 are each set opposite. the ninth lated parts of the other gear. Secured on each of the lower rollers 42 is a bevel gear .E-t adapted to mesh with and be turned by the mutilated gears 23% and 31". When gear St" is in mesh with bevel gear 34/,

gear 341' is out of mesh with gear Zl-l and viee versa. The mutilated gears 23-! and I.-ti" are so placed that the rollers aregiven an osl-illatory movement, but their forward nunemeul. is twil-e as great as their hauls ward movement, so that tllQy are intermitteui'ly advancing all. the time. The gills are driven eouiinuously Forward at the same rate as the it' iu'warrl movement of the rollers if by gearii l8. ",lhe rollers are driven :ntly test to absorb the prod ct of the machinery which may he used advance oi the )l'ltil. to treatment. in the present li'litzllllltf is lost.

As t'ast either box it or ill is e upli-ed, it is removed and roping-ell by a lilied box. The two slivers of the hat-l le l tiher issuing from the last pair of roll 1:2 deposit. intohoxes t!) and it l laving thus desrribed my invention, what I claim as ne'w and flesil'e. to secure by Letters lli zilenli, is:--

l. in a. machine for treating flax and. other fiber yielding plants, refining or hackling; meehanism consisting of rollers to feed t o sliver of flax, mutilated gearing for imparting to said rollers an intermittent forward rotationor inu'einent, and gills dis osed adjavent said. rollers and adapted for the passage of the s'iver oi liatr thereover sli er.

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2. In a machine for treating flax and other fiber yielding plants, refining or back ling mechanism consisting of rollers to feed the sliver of flax, mutilated gearing for i111- parting to said rollers alternate forward and retrograde rotations or movements, the forward movement being greater than the retrograde movement, and continuously advanein gills disposed adjacent said rollers and a epted for advancing the sliver of flex and for haekling said sliver by reason. of the retrograde rotation of the rollers.

in a machine for treating flex and other fiber yielding plants, refining or hzlclling mechanism eonipr in eessive sets of rollers, sets of mutilated gears for the live sets of rollers which impart to said sets of rollers alternative forward and retrograde rotations or movements, the forward movement being greater than the retrograde n'iovement, and endless continuously advancing gills disposed intermediate succeeding sets of the said rollers, each sueeeeding gill being finer than the preceding gill, said gills being adapted to advance the sliver of liar: and to hackle said sliver by reason of the retrograde rotation of the rollers. i

In testimony whereof, I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EUGENE BOSSE. Witnesses Cosmo Kisses, 'l. B. DAvis. 

